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A toboggan is a simple sled traditionally used by children. It is also a traditional form of transport used by the Innu and Cree of northern Canada. Illustration of a toboggan. In modern times, it is used on snow to carry one or more people (often children) down a hill or other slope for recreation.
The Peterborough Canoe Company, founded in 1892 by William H. Hill and Elihu Edwards, manufactured wooden canoes in a factory located at the corner of King and Water Streets in the city of Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, where quality wood and wood-canvas canoes and sporting goods were produced until 1961.
The first form of summer toboggan was the alpine slide, which started in its present form in the 1970s. Josef Wiegand had envisioned the idea of creating a roller coaster ride for ski resorts that would take advantage of the topography of the land, rather than building a structure to create the elevation changes that traditional roller coasters required.
Project Gutenberg Canada, also known as Project Gutenburg of Canada, is a Canadian digital library founded July 1, 2007 by Dr. Mark Akrigg. [1] The website allows Canadian residents to create e-texts and download books, including those that are otherwise not in the public domain in other countries.
Abtenau Summer Toboggan [1] near Salzburg: Coaster 1.920 kilometres (1.2 mi) long, reaching speeds of up to 40 km/h (25 mph) Imst Alpine Coaster Imst, Tyrol: Coaster The world's second longest mountain coaster, 3.5 kilometres (2.2 mi) long Mieders Summer Toboggan Run Serlesbahnen Monorail coaster
A toboggan is a type of sled. Toboggan may also refer to: Knit cap, called a "toboggan" in some regional dialects of the United States; Toboggan (BMX trick) Toboggan (Lakemont Park), a roller coaster; Toboggan Handicap, a thoroughbred horse race; Toboggan (horse), a thoroughbred race horse; Water slide, called a "toboggan" in some languages
Residents of the Midwest, Plains, Great Lakes and Northeast may have heard of the term "Alberta clipper" when a winter storm is rolling through the region, but what is the meteorology behind the term?
Allen's company flourished by selling these speedy and yet controllable sleds at a time when others were still producing toboggans and "gooseneck" sleds. [4] Allen began producing sleds in his farm equipment factory to keep his workers busy even when it was not the farm season. He developed many prototypes before he created the Flexible Flyer.